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- Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5260
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 2 Discussion
I was very glad that you constructed film composer tossups instead of just tossups on popular films. These were excellent and featured numerous strong clues. Thanks--Jonathan did Herrmann and Zimmer, and I did Goldsmith, Bernstein, and Rosza. This was a fun tournament to come out of retirement from...
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7954
Re: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
Those are interesting statistics. I gather that the list isn't exhaustive--you picked various quizbowl-prominent authors, not the top x authors in each category? Is it possible to give us a sense of whom quizbowl misses, even if it's not exhaustive? Yes, this is simply a smattering of names that ca...
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7954
Re: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
I stumbled across this while doing one of my periodic perusals of the board. I've had the same thought at times, particularly when writing lit. singles tournaments. Here's some data, for whatever interest it may provide--the following is a list of hit totals for peer-reviewed articles/books on a num...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 Discussion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8329
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 Discussion
I'm glad everyone seemed to enjoy the tournament. Hopefully, the questions will be uploaded somewhere soon. As a note, we used Audacity, a freeware sound-editing program, which works pretty well and is easy to use. (For anyone's future reference--amp the volume, a lot.) Incidentally, given that most...
- Tue May 24, 2011 10:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cross-posting: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1207
- Tue May 24, 2011 10:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
- Replies: 69
- Views: 20677
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
I just want to say to everyone who might have some interest in this--this is probably the last major thing I'm going to work on quiz-bowl-wise. I think it's probably also the best, from a standpoint of originality and ambition--without exaggeration, I think this is going to be epoch-making. If you'r...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 24052
Re: talk about individual questions here
There was a Greensleeves tossup (in DII) that said that the song was used in the Intermezzo of St. Paul's Suite, which is incorrect as it's actually in the Dargason fourth movement. I buzzed in on that clue and got confused, leading to a neg. I was trying to figure out how this happened--as it turn...
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Reasonable Theory of Bonus Consistency
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7412
Re: A Reasonable Theory of Bonus Consistency
I think something that's been missing from discussions of bonus difficulty is that, given that people often do not learn information in a linear progression from things quizbowl considers "easy" to "difficult" and that all knowledge is not distributed into three homogeneous categ...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Tournament as a Work of Art
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4630
Re: The Tournament as a Work of Art
Counter-example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71f2fahFhDENo Rules Westbrook wrote:Noone is a visionary because they can perform Twinkle Twinkle Little Star super competently.
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11567
Re: CO Lit Discussion
I have a couple more comments. I was very pleased by the lack of silly common link answers in this set, and also liked the modern drama questions on works such as Also, I think there is a bad trend of using unimportant non-poem leadin clues for poet tossups. The tossups on Gerard Manley Hopkins and...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11567
Re: CO Lit Discussion
I'm glad people seemed to like this tournament--though I suspect, from reactions, that a lot of that may have just been because it was much more reasonable in answer space than either the CO preceding or either of the two most recent lit tournaments (MO and Slothrop), and not because it was necessar...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11567
Re: CO Lit Discussion
This was a pretty enjoyable tournament, with enough of the wacky American lit I like coming up. I don't have the set in front of me right now, but I did feel like specific characters did not appear a lot, for better or for worse. Here's what I see in terms of characters: Frederic Henry, Kristin Lav...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11567
Re: CO Lit Discussion
Actually, could someone who has this set (Katy? Matt?) post it? I'm interested in seeing what it finally looked like...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11567
CO Lit Discussion
Since the other discussion threads are up, I suppose this should have one too. I think I may make comments later, but I'm curious to know how this finally played out.
- Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit announcement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 29933
Re: CO Lit announcement
I suppose this post is going to have two functions. As I'm sure will disappoint, but probably not surprise, that many people, this tournament is not done and has quite a ways yet to go. It has a shot at getting done in the next two days if a couple people who are not intending to play get in touch w...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 09 question discussion
- Replies: 132
- Views: 24603
Re: NSC 09 question discussion
Musician questions in the format of __________s by ___________ are very common to the college quizbowl circuit. Is the lack of these in high school what threw people off on that Smetana question? In power, it contained clues about Brandenburgers in Bohemia , The Devil's Wall , and Dalibor , as well...
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8006
Re: MUT 2009 Discussion
There are definitely lots of famous poets who are closely identified with being from New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, to name three off the top of my head; and I'm speaking as a Yankee, so I'm sure a bunch of other people will be able to rattle off a bunch of poets strongly associated with s...
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
- Replies: 98
- Views: 56405
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
I'm probably in for this too.
- Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2009 ICT discussion
- Replies: 173
- Views: 29071
Re: 2009 ICT discussion
Thanks to Jeff for posting this tossup. I'd like to contrast this question with a Hegel tossup that I wrote for T-party earlier in this academic year. Augusto Vera worked to popularize this man in France in the 19th century, while an Italian school devoted to him was led by Bertrando Spaventa. Duri...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Free Agents
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1451
Re: TRASHionals Free Agents
EDIT: Decided to get Mets tickets instead, no longer available for this.
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8616
Re: Penn Bowl Discussion
Apologies in advance for resurrecting a thread over a month after discussion seems to have died down, but I was recently reminded of a question from the set that puzzled me: the tossup on "golden apples." The part that puzzled me was the second sentence, which reads "Three of these w...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Discussion Thread
- Replies: 121
- Views: 21377
Re: ACF Regionals Discussion Thread
I understand that it doesn't come up frequently in Quizbowl, but I think this is a case where its Quizbowl commonality is at odds with its academic importance, and I believe that in such cases we should try to bring the two closer together. Perhaps tossing it up at Regionals isn't the best way to d...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science Non-Strosity: Discussion (mid-Atlantic: STAY AWAY)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3335
Re: Science Non-Strosity: Discussion (mid-Atlantic: STAY AWAY)
the other was on that paper that Alan Sokal sent to Social Text that was basically a bunch of garbage about cultural relativism in physics or something, where I figured that there was no way in hell that people were going to pull the name of the paper but it didn't seem right to keep using "th...
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT Private Discussion Forum
- Replies: 129
- Views: 22755
Re: SCT Private Discussion Forum
I'm there.
- Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals XII: Preliminary Field Announcement
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12109
Re: TRASHionals XII: Preliminary Field Announcement
For any attending teams--I'm going to declare myself an available free agent for this, so if you have an extra spot, I'm happy to go. Email is my first name dot my last name at gmail.
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cancelled: SNAPPLE LEMON ICED TEA - Princeton University
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6478
Re: SNAPPLE LEMON ICED TEA - Princeton University - 3/29/09
Hey, I'm tentatively interested in this, if anyone wants a free agent or something.
- Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: leaving tournaments early part II: the revenge
- Replies: 64
- Views: 11553
Re: leaving tournaments early part II: the revenge
I'm going to second Mike, and I think he's being conservative--in my recent experience, 14 rounds tends to take the tournament past 8:00. I don't think I'm alone in saying that my enjoyment of a regular quiz bowl tournament starts dropping pretty quickly after 6:00, and turns into active displeasure...
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2009 (1/24/2009), Phila., PA
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19416
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2009 (1/24/2009), Phila., PA
Might I ask what the projected schedule is for the main site? Are two house teams going to be created so that we do two 13-team brackets for a prelim round-robin then break up for further playoff rounds (eek), or is there going to be some scheduling wizardry whereby we have, like, 4 brackets of 6 pl...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Trash?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4616
Re: Penn Bowl Trash?
So Brice Russ and I, it seems, are going to be playing as a team at this. Anyone else want in as our other two?
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Trash?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4616
Re: Penn Bowl Trash?
I would like to play at this tournament, and I'm pretty sure that all of my teammates from the previous day do not want to join me. Thus, I declare myself a free agent for this and will accept any offer to join an existing team or to play with whatever other free agents might exist for this. Email m...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IS Sets, A Sets, and Timers
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5849
Re: IS Sets, A Sets, and Timers
I have found that, in the typical twelve-ish round college tournament, timed tournaments tend to finish, on average, about two-four hours faster than untimed. Every SCT I have attended in recent years has gotten out well before 5:00, and just every mACF has ended well after 6:00, frequently after 7...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IS Sets, A Sets, and Timers
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5849
Re: IS Sets, A Sets, and Timers
Why are few tournaments timed? We've only been to two (TJ Fall and RM last May) and i LOVED them... it's so efficient and fast-paced and for me personally way more fun to read as well. Other than a lack of timers, i don't know why more tournaments aren't timed rounds. Well, timed tournaments may no...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Should teams be required to use this board for their events?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2506
Re: Should teams be required to use this board for their events?
When I asked TDs to post announcements here for Fall, no one was resistant. Some people are behind the times in their understanding of how quizbowl announces itself on the internet (Yahoo!, anyone?), but for the most part, I think that programs that neglect to post here do so out of a lack of infor...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:54 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Improving Bonus Conversion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4184
Re: Improving Bonus Conversion
For what it's worth, I think Akutagawa's probably askable. The whole Rashomon-movie based not on Rashomon-short-story but rather In a Grove is getting to be well known enough that it'll come up. I could be wrong. Well, the movie's based on both short stories. "Rashomon" provides the frame...
- Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ Fall 2008 ACF Set #2 Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8794
Re: HSAPQ Fall 2008 Sample Packet Discussion
I have a few objections about the Messiah tossup. First of all, it includes a lot of trivial information (libretto by, conducted by) and very few actual names. Also, "Comfort ye, my people" and "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" are in fact the first two works after the overture bu...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Trash?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4616
Re: Penn Bowl Trash?
Is this ever going to be officially announced? I would like to play if it happens, but I'd have to assemble a team and all to do so, and would like to start looking into that.
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MO Lit packets and discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9246
Re: MO Lit packets and discussion
Questions like the prefaces of Henry James won't make good questions and probably lead to confused buzzer races as it did in my room. The leadin mentioned the second to last of these essays...and what really is a shame about a tossup on this is that even if you have read that particular essay, (dou...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Harvard T-Party Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10147
Re: Harvard T-Party Discussion
Perhaps my perspective is thirty years out of date (it almost inevitably is, since my mom got her masters nearly thirty years ago, and most of my opinion about literature are influenced by her), but I still believe in close reading, the principle that a text should exist independent of its author, ...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MO Lit packets and discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9246
Re: MO Lit packets and discussion
Even with what you had, there were some tossups that I think could have used better giveaways - the Don Juan tossup really sticks about because as I remember it, it ended with a clue about him going to hell, but nothing else in the question really screamed "Don Juan" (say, the Byron poem ...
- Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114054
Re: Bad Negs Again
Oh, I just thought it was a dumb mistake on my part It was a misstep, but one that's nevertheless clearly a correct response. TAKE THAT, NAQT. I believe that standard ACF (don't recall NAQT) rules say that if you answer in English for a title that is originally in a foreign language, you have to us...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Trash?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4616
Re: Penn Bowl Trash?
I would be at the Penn Bowl site, and I am interested in playing.
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 22765
Re: ACF Fall discussion (don't read, players at U Wash. site)
IIRC, she beats her to death against a post in the shed, no?HKirsch wrote:Obviously, I wasn't playing, but I thought these were good, well-edited questions. I did note an error in one question (Sethe does not drown Beloved, she cuts her throat, I think), but it didn't really affect the bonus it was part of.
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Non-question-specific criticisms of IS-80A
- Replies: 253
- Views: 36075
Re: Non-question-specific criticisms of IS-80A
Well, maybe, but that is in fact the entire crux of the novel from my understanding of its plot. No it's not, really, so let's let this whole thing end with us not writing Stendhal tossups for ninth-graders touching the buzzer for the first time and, if we do write on Stendhal for high-schoolers, h...
- Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On Writing for NAQT
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2549
On Writing for NAQT
Over the past few years, there have been a number of people who have spoken ill of writing for NAQT, ranging from very inexperienced players who do not write much at all, much less for NAQT, to people who have decided to write for other companies, to people who have written thousands of questions fo...
- Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Non-question-specific criticisms of IS-80A
- Replies: 253
- Views: 36075
Re: Non-question-specific criticisms of IS-80A
Even though I used the word outbuzzed, my intention is more about the fact of knowledge in itself. I'm no Schopenhauer fanatic, but I'm willing to wager "four objects of knowledge" is more obscure than On the Basis of Morality. And on another note as illustrated earlier: this is a questio...
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Interest in Feb tourney @ Columbia?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3272
Re: Interest in Feb tourney @ Columbia?
I'll probably show up to play or moderate, depending.
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pilatus Discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2839
Pilatus Discussion
So, while Colin recovers from his weekend, I figured I'd start a thread for the discussion of this, while it's fresh in everyone's minds. While Colin did all the editing, I'm responsible for the originals of a large amount of the pre-1990 film (and a fair chunk of the pre-1990 in many categories, I ...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MO Trash: The Rob Pilatus Memorial Tournament - 10.19.08
- Replies: 80
- Views: 17780
Re: MO Trash: The Rob Pilatus Memorial Tournament - 10.19.08
So what actually ended up happening here?
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PrelimAnnouncement: MIT Mirror of Minnesota Open (10/18/08)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 17568
Re: PrelimAnnouncement: MIT Mirror of Minnesota Open (10/18/08)
Not to be repetitive, but I'm interested in how the lit. singles went here, as well, particularly as I'd thought about coming up for it.
- Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Annct: 10/18 MO Saturday Night Lit Tournament: An Encounter
- Replies: 65
- Views: 21141
Re: Annct: 10/18 MO Saturday Night Lit Tournament: An Encounter
I'm curious what happened with this and how it turned out...